CaseRectangle1997
Unincorporated, AZ, USA
Giant rotating rectangular shaped "mirror" flying accross the sky.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (66 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-02-01
- Where
- Unincorporated, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- rectangle-over-unincorporated-az-1997-06e116
Wave
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Unincorporated, AZ.
- This case is one of 145 Arizona reports filed in 1997.
- Rectangle craft made up 1.4% of 1990s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.